2016 Book Challenge in Bookish Stuff
Revised: 04/04/2016 11:35 a.m.
- Dec. 7, 2015, 6:18 p.m.
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Pulitzer Prize Book
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Book of Poetry
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Microhistory
Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson ⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
Novella
The Times are Never so bad by Andre Dubus ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
YA book series
1. Daughter of Smoke & Bone ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. Days of Blood & Starlight⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Dreams of Gods & Monster ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Laini Taylor -
Biography of a Person you admire
Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
Fantasy
The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
Sci-Fi
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Dystopian
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Non-fiction
Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
Historical Fiction
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A bestselling book
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (Grisha 1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
A spy novel
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A debut novel
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison ⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
A book with alliteration in the title
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A book with a yellow cover
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A book set in Europe
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A book based on the state where you live currently
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A book from the country where one of your grandparents were born
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A book featuring immigrant characters
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
A book about an artist or art
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A book where the main character is an animal
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A book about books
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A book about outlaws
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
Book on a top 100 list
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A book published in 2016
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A book published between 1850-1950
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A banned book
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A book you got for free
Make Something Up by Chuck P ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
A book from your comfort zone
Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick ⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
A book outside your comfort zone
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An inspirational story
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
A book your father loves (I’m fudging this to book a book your husband loves instead)
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Recommended by a friend
Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III ⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
A guilty pleasure
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A book you wanted to read in 2015
The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
Wild Card (I’m assuming this to mean a free spot to fill in with whatever my dark heart desires)
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Based on a fairy tale
Alice by Christina Henry ⭐️⭐️ -
A book translated into English
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A book that scares you
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A New York Times best seller
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A book that is more than 600 pages
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A murder mystery
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A book that takes place on an island
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A book with a blue cover
Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
A book you picked based solely on the cover
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The first book you see in the bookstore
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A book with nonhuman characters
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A romance
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A book recommended to you by an Instagram Feed
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A classic
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A Western themed novel
January 2016:
1. Not My Father’s Son-Alan Cumming January 2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. The Times are Never So Bad- Andre Dubus January 5th ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman January 8th ⭐️⭐️
4. The house of sand and fog by Dubus III January 10th ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5. Three Moments of an Explosion by China Mieville January 12th ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
6. Make Something Up by Chuck P ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ January 14th
7. Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III ⭐️⭐️⭐️ January 16th
8. Stone Mattresss by Margaret Atwood ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ January 21st
9. Alice by Christina Henry ⭐️⭐️ January 24th
10. Daughter of Smoke & Bone ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ January 27th
11. Slasher Girls & Monster Boys ⭐️⭐️⭐️ January 29th
February 2016:
1. Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Feb 2
2. The Oregon Trail ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Feb 7th
3. Days of Blood and Starlight ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Feb 9th
4. Dreams of Gods and Monsters ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Feb 14th
5. The Golem & The Jinni ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Feb 20th
6. The Darkest Part of the Forest ⭐️⭐️ Feb 25th
March 2016:
1. Six of Crows- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️March 1st
2. Mistborn The Final Empire- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ March 7th
3. The Life Boat- ⭐️⭐️ March 9th
4. The Well of Ascension- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ March 16th
5. Consider the Fork- ⭐️⭐️⭐️ March 18th
6. The Hero of Ages- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ March 23rd
7. The Goblin Emperor- ⭐️⭐️⭐️ March 26th
8. BlackBringer- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️March 28th
April 2016:
1. Hush Hush- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️April 1st
2. Shadow and Bone- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ April 3rd
Last updated April 04, 2016
Avalon ⋅ December 07, 2015
Yay! Great choices. There's lots of room for all kinds of books and bookends prompts. 😄
Life Is For Living ⋅ December 07, 2015
Huzzah! & that rounds off the Bookends choices for our individual prompts next year. Go us!
Jeanine ⋅ December 07, 2015
I'm surprised you haven't finished this list yet!
HAHAHA. I'm going to do it, too, but know I'm just fooling myself :D
Lepetit pumpkinesque Jeanine ⋅ December 07, 2015
I didn't finish this years yet, I still have four prompts that I probably won't fill.
I made my own list for 2016, I just put a bunch of them together and voila!
Jeanine ⋅ December 07, 2015
Oh! You have a different one than the one I have; I will probably steal some of your prompts as they suit me!
perfunctory ⋅ December 07, 2015
You'll kill it, I know it!
pandora ⋅ December 08, 2015
I recommend All the Light We Cannot See for the Pulitzer!
Lepetit pumpkinesque pandora ⋅ December 08, 2015
I already read it!! I loved it so much!
pandora ⋅ February 26, 2016
I loved The House of Sand and Fog--how are his other books? I put the Alan Cumming one on my To Buy list. I love him in both The L Word and The Good Wife, and he's vegan and bi, and when you wrote about how much you loved the autobiography, it sealed the deal!
Lepetit pumpkinesque pandora ⋅ February 26, 2016
The garden of beasts and house of sand and fog were my favorites. His dad writes too! It was fun to compare them. You will LOVE Alan's book
moneypenny ⋅ February 27, 2016
The last Smoke & Bone was disappointing but I enjoyed the first 2 in that series!
Lepetit pumpkinesque moneypenny ⋅ February 27, 2016
You didn't like it?? I loved it!
moneypenny Lepetit pumpkinesque ⋅ February 28, 2016
I felt like there was a lot of filler in the last one? Like there's a long bit where she keeps the main couple apart just for tension and not because it makes any sense in the narrative. And I thought the faction at the end was sort of an unearned Deus Ex Machina. But I generally loved the world-building and the dialogue and the characters overall, so I wasn't too mad. The first two books were amazing and I read them almost in one sitting.
pandora ⋅ April 04, 2016
Did you already read All The Light We Cannot See? That's a Pulitzer and it was one of the best books I read last year (this year?) for SURE.
Lepetit pumpkinesque pandora ⋅ April 04, 2016
I read it last year and it was MY FAVORITE 2015 book!! I'm glad you liked the Alan Cumming Memoir!
pandora ⋅ April 04, 2016
By the way, I really liked the Alan Cumming memoir!